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Update 4: And we're over $1K! Thanks to everyone who pitched in, and to Debra for matching the $1K.
Update 3: At 1:19 PM EST, we're up to $973.21! One more contribution of $26.79 will be doubled.
Update 2: As of 11:40 AM EST, we're up to $723.21 from 22 OpenLeft readers. Almost there!
Update: As of 10:45 AM EST, we're up to $442 from 14 OpenLeft readers. Thanks! Let's cost Deb another $500 or so.
Our heartfelt thanks to Debra, a longtime and active member of OpenLeft, for her humbling generosity. -Adam
Actually the title should really read Make Me Match You. The first is a little punning on the fact that my daughter got married last weekend, which is one of many reasons that I am proposing that anyone who can scratch together some money to donate to Open Left can and will see it doubled.
I consider Open Left an investment in the future that I want for my daughter, her new husband and the grandchildren I (and they too, really I am not just a typical, nudgy mother!) am hoping for.
Open Left has carved out its place in the political and media sphere. I want to make sure it stays there, fully engaged and powerful. It is a very crucial part of the conversation, the political activity that is going to "secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity". (Can't stop talking about posterity, can I?)
One day walking across my hometown's very historic town Green, (one of the centers of New England Townhall meeting governments) it was at that moment I realized I was a liberal. Being a liberal meant making manifest in all its various permutations, what those words I quoted above meant. And I have stayed a liberal and a progressive....even when people looked askance and thought I must be nuts.
The internet validated and supported those feelings. And Open Left has done a great deal to turn those visions into poltical activity that turns the word left, liberal, and progressive, into words one can say very loud and proud.
So I will match, one to one, every dollar that anyone gives on this site up to $1000.00. I think it is important that we "secure the blessings of liberty" for Open Left itself, i.e. the right to write and agitate for whatever this terrific place thinks is necessary to secure my (and yours if your have and/or want) grandchildren's future.
So make me match you. As a member of the Open Left community to all the others of the community who do, I thank you wholeheartedly.
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